Good evening families!
We look forward to seeing you this evening at Student Led Conferences! We have five stations set up for you to enjoy and review assessment criteria with your child.
In math, we continued working on using the traditional way of solving long division. For parents looking to support their children, most students are experiencing difficulty with division basic facts and using their multiplication facts to solve division questions. For example, in both methods of division, the very first step is to see how many times you can fit the divisor into a digit, such as how many times can you fit 3 into 9. When the digits start to turn into larger numbers, such as how many times can you fit 7 into 42, students get overwhelmed and struggle to select the appropriate method to help them find the answer. In this case, students should be able to reverse the division sentence into 7 x _(6)_ = 42 so that they know they can fit 7 into 42, 6 times.
In language arts, students have continued to compose their procedural writing, although we did not get back to it today we will be moving on to finishing the writing process on Monday, editing our work, and preparing it for publishing on our student blogs. If you continue to have difficulty accessing your child's blog, tonight will be an excellent opportunity to check it out in person.
In social studies, students were asked to consider the challenges and opinions that were expressed during the lead up to confederation. They had to choose a side, for or against confederation, and write a letter to one of the Father's of Confederation outlining the reasons why they wanted to join or remain separate from Confederation. It was a quick writing activity meant to give students opportunity to practice taking and synthesizing information in order to persuade a reader toward an opinion. From what I saw during this time, many letters were quite convincing!
Yesterday we began classroom chemistry by reviewing the states and properties of matter in preparation for some exciting experiments we will be conducting next week. We will be looking into reactions and changes of state. Stay tuned for some fun!
Please be advised that our school wide Literacy Day has been rescheduled from Wednesday, January 31st to Tuesday, January 30th. This is an opportunity to celebrate reading and literacy by dressing up as our favourite book character, decorating our doors around literacy and increasing the amount of time students read throughout the day. We are looking forward to seeing how creative students can be with designing their book character costume!
Reminders:
-Student led conferences begin tonight at 6:30
-No school tomorrow - PD DAY
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